Quotes About Truth

Mai infrangere le illusioni degli altri se non si è certi di poter offrir loro un'alternativa migliore di quella a cui li si vuole strappare.

Agli inizi della carriera ero così fesso da credere che il lavoro consistesse nell'individuare un colpevole tra la massa degli innocenti. In realtà si tratta casomai di trovare uno o due innocenti che meritano di essere salvati in mezzo alla massa dei cattivi.

The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

So meaning is made, not just discovered. That is what religion for the most part is: the constant making and remaking of meaning, by the stories we tell, the rituals we perform and the prayers we say. The stories are sacred, the rituals divine commands, and prayer a genuine dialogue with the divine. Religion is an authentic response to a real Presence, but it is also a way of making that presence real by constantly living in response to it. It is truth translated into deed.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be .

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Our stories are so fundamental to us that it's easy to forget that we choose them.

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

and when is enough proof enough?

They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.